While in the Traveling Wilburys, Tom Petty performed with Bob Dylan, George Harrison, Jeff Lynne, and Roy Orbison. All were established artists, but Petty thought Orbison was the most intimidating.

Roy Orbison had a complicated rollercoaster of a career, in which great success and immense tragedy seemed to go hand in hand.

When biographer John Kruth writes that Roy Orbison’s “life seemed to mirror that of Job’s from the Old Testament,” he is not stretching too far to make a point. The singer’s first wife died in a ...

From a puff of smoke at center stage, the legendary crooner appeared, in dark glasses and a gray suit with a black shirt underneath, and his silver crusader cross necklace. He held a red Gibson guitar ...